In the near future, a robot may be fixing your car‘s flat tire. A San Francisco-based startup named PitPro Automation recently installed a tire-changing robot in a Calgary tire shop. The device features two cube-shaped robots that move along a track and use sensors and robotic arms to locate and store lug nuts. In all, the machine can complete a full tire-changing job in 15 minutes. Will this put a lot of tire changers out of work? The founder, Jeremy Conrad, told TechCrunch the bigger problem is that shops can’t find workers in the first place. Calling the work of…
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AI data centers aren’t exactly popular down here on Earth. Ask Kevin O’Leary, who had to shrink his Utah project after fierce local pushback. A UMass Amherst poll this month found only 1 in 9 Americans support one going up in their community. So, Google is scouting a spot no NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) can reach. The company will launch a prototype satellite into space next week carrying its Tensor Processing Units, the custom chips behind its AI services, according to Reuters. It’s the first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research effort exploring whether massive AI computing clusters…
Key Takeaways Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky was attending too many meetings. He used AI to create a “brain” or “intelligence corpus” trained on 18,000 Keynote presentations, 50,000 Google Docs and other company materials. Chesky said he has made it a personal priority to become fluent in AI. Brian Chesky says AI helped him solve a persistent problem that plagues most CEOs — too many meetings. The Airbnb CEO admitted earlier this week in an appearance at the Skift Global Forum that “most of us CEOs of big companies don’t really know what is going on in our companies.” “So…
A lot of emails have come in about the AI will destroy humanity. The difference between Socrates and Neural Nets is that Socrates has only a economic related database and we have more than anything out there on the internet. That’s why back in 1999, the government freaked out and shut down the IPO we were going to do for $3 billion back then. Socrates is what people call classic AI. That was discussed even in open court. Neural networks are not “rule-free.” They are trained on data with defined objectives, architectures, and constraints set by their developers. That’s the…
New York sued the prediction market Polymarket on Thursday, arguing the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and calling for a judge to block the company from operating in the state.The lawsuit is the latest legal challenge from a state moving to rein in popular and now-ubiquitous betting apps that allow people to place wagers on most anything, including sports, weather, elections and technology.Prediction market platforms have argued states do not have the authority to govern them because they are regulated at the federal level by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.New York officials filed Thursday’s lawsuit against Polymarket in…
Building a human civilization on Mars will be orders of magnitude harder than any of the human migrations on Earth ever were. Here, you can build refuge anywhere, which is why our civilization is everywhere from pole to pole. If we ever hope to live on the red planet, we must build with the red dirt right beneath our boots, a challenge that has long been thought to demand expensive, huge industrial machinery and nuclear plant-level power generation. Now, a team of researchers has unveiled a radical, low-energy alternative in which a crew could carry a tiny tube of dormant…
This year has seen a number of retailers deciding to close a significant number of stores. As Fast Company reported last month, those closures have included hundreds of Eddie Bauer, Francesca’s, GameStop, and Walgreens locations. Now, another major retailer is joining that list. The Cato Corporation, parent company of Cato Fashions, which operates more than 1,000 women’s apparel and accessories stores across 31 states, has announced it will close 120 of them—more than 10%—by the end of the year. Here’s what you need to know. What is Cato? The Cato Corporation is a company that owns and operates three different…
Working professionals everywhere know the struggle of putting in a hard day’s work, then still having to figure out food. It can be the straw that breaks the camel’s back—but, thankfully, versatile meal options like the quesadilla have a long history of solving this conundrum. Today (Friday, September 25, 2026) is National Quesadilla Day, which is the perfect occasion to celebrate and learn about this cheesy delight. We will even let you in on the best deals to satisfy your well-earned hunger. A brief history of the tortilla At its core, traditional quesadillas are made of a folded tortilla and…
Key Takeaways Gwynda Jones turned a major personal health setback and a long corporate career into an entrepreneurial second act, opening a Hotworx franchise in downtown Chicago in 2023. Hotworx is a 24/7 fitness studio franchise that combines exercise with infrared saunas. Jones funded the venture largely with retirement savings accumulated over 38 years. As a corporate executive for PepsiCo for 30 years, Gwynda Jones was accustomed to high-intensity work. Then health complications derailed her ambitions. “In 2013, I had a heart attack and stroke and was disabled,” Jones says in a new interview with Entrepreneur. “Over the years, I…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Being nice protects someone’s feelings in the moment, while being kind gives them the honest feedback and clear expectations they need to grow. Boundaries are a form of kindness that protects the leader’s energy and judgment, which ultimately protects the team. One of the questions I get asked most often is whether kindness really belongs in leadership. I understand why people ask. Somewhere along the way, kindness became confused with weakness. We started believing that if a leader is compassionate, they must also be permissive. If they care about people,…